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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time

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Don't you hate it when you get a one dimensional protagonist in a anime who doesn't know what the hell he's doing and all you want to do is curse him.. If you can name any who would it be and from what anime is it?

For the first 10 episodes, Garrod from Gundam X. He was a real clueless asshole. At least where he is now he has his priorities straightened out.

If you stripped Sousuke Sagara and Iori Sei of every trait that made them interesting and combined their boiled down archetypes to a gunpla loving child-soldier and then drained that concept of any novelty or entertainment value well before the halfway point of the series, you'd have Setsuna. All 00 Gundam's Setsuna cares about is being Gundam and that's something that is neither well explained nor well thought out. It just is his goal.

Well that's a real shame. I kind of like that guy's design. Especially the design of his Gundam.

I'm still going to give the first season of 00 a shot though sometime because of that.
 

Xater

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So looking at people recommendations apparently I should watch

Haikyuu!!
Ping Pong
Baby Steps
Captain Earth
JoJo
Mushishi

I don#t need much convincing for the sports and mecha stuff. JoJo I can safely skip because I watched the first few episodes of the first season and it wasn't for me. Mushishi seems to be the second season now so I guess I'll skip that as well.

What's with the sumo anime though? Has anyone given that a shot yet?
 

Gbraga

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Shard

XBLAnnoyance
So looking at people recommendations apparently I should watch

Haikyuu!!
Ping Pong
Baby Steps
Captain Earth
JoJo
Mushishi

I don#t need much convincing for the sports and mecha stuff. JoJo I can safely skip because I watched the first few episodes of the first season and it wasn't for me. Mushishi seems to be the second season now so I guess I'll skip that as well.

What's with the sumo anime though? Has anyone given that a shot yet?

The majority opinion this far is Abarenbou Kishi!! Matsutarou containing one of the worst protagonists ever seen in anime.

Anyway, if you are looking for a dark horse, Majin Bone seems to be shaping up as something good.
 

Xater

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The majority opinion this far is Abarenbou Kishi!! Matsutarou containing one of the worst protagonists ever seen in anime.

Anyway, if you are looking for a dark horse, Majin Bone seems to be shaping up as something good.

Alright then I'll give that a shot. Reading for some more impressions Baby Steps and Captain Earth might even be on the cutting list.
 
Yowapeda Episode 26
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Yuki Kaji in our yowapeda, along with Toudou, they are slowly adding my favorite voices to this. But Toudou really got the most of my attention, all the lines, his pretty moments, and just really throwing down the gauntlet. Incredible.

I think there was a slight issue with the plot
mainly how we see Onoda is in the group all together, but then somehow fell behind to be caught up in the mess of the fallen biker and then last place. It felt like something was skipped in how he fell behind the group since he was right by Naruko the entire time on screen until the curve.
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ED song is amazing for Toudou voice singing and then the OP quite good with our favorites from Sohoku.
 

CorvoSol

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For the first 10 episodes, Garrod from Gundam X. He was a real clueless asshole. At least where he is now he has his priorities straightened out.



Well that's a real shame. I kind of like that guy's design. Especially the design of his Gundam.

I'm still going to give the first season of 00 a shot though sometime because of that.

Please note that my opinion is kind of far from the norm when it comes to 00. The mecha designs in that show are indeed great, though. And Setsuna is probably one of those characters that SRW redeems, like Shinn. Goodness knows I hate Setsuna far less than Shinn. His greatest crime really was trying to be like Sousuke and somehow winding up with less personality than Heero.
 

cajunator

Banned
Kanojo ga Flag wo Oretara ep1

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I've seen plenty of ridiculous school uniforms but this one takes the cake. Who in the right mind to designing such atrocious skirt? Totally going against the upper uniform, at least when designing a uniform, make sure both upper and lower uniforms compliment each other.

Other than that, a interesting concept for a show, since many years Otakus have been talking about the flag tropes and now there's a show which uses as flags part of the gimmick.

And I almost didn't recognize Kayano Ai's VAing. Too hyper and sweet for her usual roles which is almost irritating. Kinda remind me of Fuyuumi Ai from Oreshura except Fuyuumi Ai is fucking amazing.

That is an...unusual looking outfit. Im not keen on it either.

Mai-Hime was more like Utena but not good.

Mai Hime was fine up till the dick-punch ending.

So LWA2 seems a bit behind, the wallpapers were supposed to go out in May and are now scheduled for summer, due to a Kickstarter update.

At least they started on it. I was scared for a bit that they would just abandon it.

Finally watched Madoka: The Rebellion movie yesterday.

What a great ride. Beginning was kind of slow but after that it became quite good.

Loved the Homura vs Mami fight scene. It was superb. Also liked the battle between witch Homura vs witch Sayaka and Charlotte(Bebe). It was so great watching Magical Girls and witches working together.

The end though... Mixed feelings. Still don't like Homura. Stripping (or sealing temporally) Madoka's powers so she can become a normal girl, she didn't ask that. I expect Urobutcher to make a final fight between Goddess Madoka vs Devil Homura if a second season or another movie airs.
Homura gained some points at the end though. Good riddance Kyuubey.

Yuki Kajiura's didn't disappoint again. All of her tracks are superb.

Cant wait. Mine is supposed to arrive today but I probably wont be able to watch until next week.
 

Acosta

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The best thing that could have happend for AoT was
for Eren to stay dead and let Mikasa take over.

We'll discover the basement in the year of our El Cantare 2048.

Dunno, Mikasa is too "perfect", I like the idea that she has a more passionate (and dumber) side about Eren, she looks more human that way and it let her shines more.

Think in the final chapter with that verbal smackdown to Eren, sometimes a great character needs a bad character to really standout
 

Narag

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Dunno, Mikasa is too "perfect", I like the idea that she has a more passionate (and dumber) side about Eren, she looks more human that way and it let her shines more.

Think in the final chapter with that verbal smackdown to Eren, sometimes a great character needs a bad character to really standout

Reading perfect as competent.
 

survivor

Banned
Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara 1
You would think someone would take the concept of seeing flags and make something funny with it, but nope. Instead I got some ugly generic trash, couldn't make it past the first 10 mins.
 

Grzi

Member
New Yugioh Show - 01

I'll watch this because I need to watch something stupid and fun, and I haven't seen a Yugioh show in ages. This is a fresh start I guess, but it's basically more of the same, with a bit of a wackier premise and characters. I'll continue watching, what the hell.

That Sumo Show - 01

Didn't like it. It has an old school vibe to it, but the humor is kind of dull, the main character is annoying and there was no point to it all, other than to make us hate the guy, which the episode succeeded in doing, but I'm not interested enough to keep watching. Maybe if you guys say it gets good later on, but for now I'm out.

Mahouka - 01

Yeah, I can see why this is popular, I get a strong Angel Beats vibe from this one, and I hated that show, but this one at least looks a bit better (the designs are still stupidly simple, but at least they stay on model and there's some nice animation here and there). Other than that, I expect the show to turn serious and tragic in a way that the typical anime fan adores, and they'll probably give extremely detailed explanations of the magic system and what not, everything you'd expect out of an adaptation of a popular light novel (?). Anyway, I'll continue watching, but I'll probably hate it.
 

Articalys

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So I'm going to be out for the next three days or so, meaning I'm going to miss all the simulcast announcements, new show premieres (NGNL, Chaika, InuNeko, GochiUsa, both noitaminA shows), second episodes of Mushishi, JoJo, and WIXOSS, and whatever else is going to happen until late Friday.

Going to have a LOT to catch up on. Hopefully nothing big happens/gets announced and you all won't go post-crazy and get all the way to a new thread by then.

Also, I'm authorizing cajunator to act as my proxy for reactions to anything else interesting that happens while I'm gone.
 
Mahouka - 01

Yeah, I can see why this is popular, I get a strong Angel Beats vibe from this one, and I hated that show, but this one at least looks a bit better (the designs are still stupidly simple, but at least they stay on model and there's some nice animation here and there). Other than that, I expect the show to turn serious and tragic in a way that the typical anime fan adores, and they'll probably give extremely detailed explanations of the magic system and what not, everything you'd expect out of an adaptation of a popular light novel (?). Anyway, I'll continue watching, but I'll probably hate it.

Its been in the top 4 best selling ln list for the past two years and has more 3mln copies in print.
 

cajunator

Banned
So I'm going to be out for the next three days or so, meaning I'm going to miss all the simulcast announcements, new show premieres (NGNL, Chaika, InuNeko, GochiUsa, both noitaminA shows), second episodes of Mushishi, JoJo, and WIXOSS, and whatever else is going to happen until late Friday.

Going to have a LOT to catch up on. Hopefully nothing big happens/gets announced and you all won't go post-crazy and get all the way to a new thread by then.

Also, I'm authorizing cajunator to act as my proxy for reactions to anything else interesting that happens while I'm gone.

G-go ahead and leave! I-its not like Ill miss you or anything. B-bakaaaa! >/////<
 

Gbraga

Member
I am really intrigued by the lovely brown girl in your avatar.

She's from Captain Earth <3

So I'm going to be out for the next three days or so, meaning I'm going to miss all the simulcast announcements, new show premieres (NGNL, Chaika, InuNeko, GochiUsa, both noitaminA shows), second episodes of Mushishi, JoJo, and WIXOSS, and whatever else is going to happen until late Friday.

Going to have a LOT to catch up on. Hopefully nothing big happens/gets announced and you all won't go post-crazy and get all the way to a new thread by then.

Also, I'm authorizing cajunator to act as my proxy for reactions to anything else interesting that happens while I'm gone.

I'll miss your cute avatar
 
Haikyuu!! - 1

Goddamit, it's not a toss, it's a set, he's asking for a set not a toss
And who approaches like that when they hit seriously?
Loving the animations though, looks really smooth especially when they show them hitting the ball, this show has potential
 

Grzi

Member
Akuma no Riddle - 01

Seven minutes in and I have to turn it off, not feeling this at all. It seems terribly generic, it tries to be EDGY in that specific way that only truly bad anime can achieve. Ugh.

If anyone convinces me it gets better, I might finish the episode, but right now I'm moving on to something else.

This is all because there's no OP for the Spring shows, and I don't like any of the guides on anime blogs and stuff, so now I have to watch everything.
 

PsionBolt

Member
2 seconds into Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to 01

Ashisu is Ayase!!

...Aito is Kirito.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to enjoy this adaptation.
 
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